Scientists find way to make a healthier and ‘oozier’ version of vegan cheese
www.independent.co.uk
The team achieved the feat using a process called oleogelation

Vegan cheese made from home-grown vegetable oils is healthier, greener and more “oozy”, scientists have found.

The cheese substitute is typically made from a combination of starch and solid fats like coconut or palm oil.

The fats give it the “sliceable, meltable” texture people expect from cheese – but also mean vegan cheese often ends up with a high saturated fat content.

Now a team at Heriot-Watt University (HWU) has developed a way of making vegan cheese slices from vegetable oils like rapeseed and sunflower, rather than the coconut and palm oil.

The work is as part of efforts to make the product healthier and more sustainable.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Yay, more highly processed shit for people trying to eat a healthy diet. Now with more ooze.

    • Vegan cheese already exists and is already highly processed. It’s an alternative to an animal-based food that’s also unhealthy and highly processed.
    • People who eat a plant-based diet for health would be able to avoid it basically just as much as they could before if this takes off.
    • Existing vegan cheese is typically made with coconut or palm oil, high in saturated fats.
    • The innovation discussed in the article offers to raise protein while lowering unhealthy saturated fat content.
    • Veganism isn’t about a “healthy diet”. It’s about the animals. There’s !wfpb@lemmy.world if you’re looking for a community strictly about healthy, plant-based dieting.

    A plant-based diet that vegans adopt coincidentally can have a lot of health benefits (dependent largely on how closely you stick to whole foods), but coming in and complaining about unhealty, processed alternatives to unhealthy, processed animal-based foods is kind of like coming into a community about smoothies and complaining on a post about a new cookie smoothie because drinking smoothies is about health and liquefied veggies and fitness. It’s your choice if you want to use smoothies strictly to stay healthy (and good for you); some people just generically like and want to talk about smoothies and don’t care if they have a sugary, junk smoothie once in a while or even all the time.

    TL;DR: You’re not in a healthy dieting community, so please don’t act like it if it doesn’t personally affect you.